Sarah Jane Hamilton

Sarah Jane "Pittypat" Hamilton was a Georgia socialite during the Old South era.

Biography
Sarah Jane Hamilton was the sister of William R. Hamilton and Henry Hamilton, and the childless Henry and Sarah took in William's children Melanie and Charles Hamilton after William died during his children's early years. She was said to have had the maturity of a child herself, and the children's true caretaker was the African-American slave "Uncle Peter". During William T. Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864, Hamilton and Uncle Peter fled to relatives in Macon, leaving Melanie in her former sister-in-law and best friend Scarlett O'Hara's care.